April 2024 Tip: Reconditioning Drills

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Reconditioning a drill not only keeps your drills in top performance for the next job, but will also save money until the drill can no longer be reconditioned. Today's tip will show you how to thin web thickness, remove worn sections of a drill, and regrind a point surface. This tip goes hand in hand with an earlier tip I posted about drill troubleshooting.

Download this free  7-page tip sheet, print it out, and keep nearby while performing any of these reconditioning processes. 

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